Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 201]

<ul> <li><strong>Scholastic Theology.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 201&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 380&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY.</p> <p>380.</p> <p>B 201. Size 7^3/4 in. by 5 in.; foll. 59. Mostlt seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>A Commentary (ممزوج) on the الفقه الاکبر, or Principles of Muḥammadan Faith, by &lsquo;ABD AL-AWWAL b. &lsquo;Abd al-ḳaiy&ucirc; M&ucirc;saw&icirc;, who wrote it A.H. 1064, at Samarḳand, this commentary was not known to Ḥ. Kh. (see iv. 458), nor is it found elsewhere.</p> <p>See on the الفقه الاکبر, which is commonly (and also by the present commentator) ascribed to <em>Abu Ḥan&icirc;fah </em>(d. A.H. 150), Cat. Lugd. iv. 227, and A. von Kremer, Geschichte der herrschenden Ideen des Islams, p. 39 sqq. It was printed with a Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; translation, at Lakhnau, A.H. 1260.</p> <p>The preface begins: الحمدلله الواجب وجوده لذاته.</p> <p>The author says in it that no labour deserving the name of a commentary had been bestowed upon the work before him (fol. 2): ولکن لم اطلع له شرحا یبین شیئا من مجملاته و یحلّ عقدة من مشکلاته بل لم اجد له ما تعدّ عداد الشروح الخ. He quotes in his commentary the principal works on the <em>Kal&acirc;m</em> down to (Daww&acirc;n&icirc;&rsquo;s) شرح العقائد العضدیة.</p> <p>It concludes in the following manner: الحمدلله علی اتمام شرح کلام امام الهمام و الصلوة و السلام علی سید الانام و علی آله العظام و اصحابه الکرام فی ثلث آخر لیلة العاشر شهر الحجة الحرام من شهور سنة اربع و ستین و الف فی فناء بلدة المحروسة سمرقند فی جوار خانقاه الحضرة القدسیة الحسنیة الخارزمیة.</p> <p>The present MS., the greater part of which (from fol. 20) is written in a legible Nasta&rsquo;liḳ hand, though almost without diacritical points, and with no distinction of text and commentary, was transcribed during the author&rsquo;s lifetime. It bears corrections, additions, and some notes by the author (marked with منه سلمه الله و ابقاه) on the margin. The first portion is ill written by a different hand. It bears similar corrections, and a few additions (marked with صح) have been inserted in it on separate slips of paper. Fol. 19<em>v</em>., which remained vacant, has been filled with trials of the pen.</p> <p>Cat. 226, xx.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>